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ButterFLi: Affordable Transit For Those Who Need It Most
If you are a senior citizen or differently abled and need to make essential trips during the COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place order, our partner ButterFLi continues to provide transportation for you within our service area. Here's what you need to know: ButterFLi’s drivers...
Updates On COVID-19 & DTLA Transit
Metro is conducting a Bus Rapid Transit Vision & Principles Study to help develop and define the overall vision for BRT in L.A. County. The study also will identify corridors aligned with current and future needs and opportunities. Responses will be accepted...
Metrolink Steps Up Cleaning Procedures And Releases Survey Results
Metrolink released results from a customer survey last week that put safety atop the list of passenger concerns. The agency has responded with stepped up cleaning efforts on all of its trains and at all of its facilities as outlined in this video. The survey also...
New Transit App Replaces Metro’s In-House App
Transit is the new official mobile app of Metro for smartphones and tablets. Used in more than 200 cities around the world, Transit will replace Metro’s own app in providing real-time arrival data, navigation, trip planning and service alerts. Metro’s current app will...
City Accepting Applications For Slow Streets L.A. Program
The City of Los Angeles is accepting applications for the Slow Streets L.A. program, which restricts street traffic to give local residents more room for safe recreational activities. The limited program will limit Slow Streets to local traffic and parking to give...
South Park BID Ensures Businesses and Neighbors Stay Connected
The South Park BID serves an iconic slice of DTLA that includes the Los Angeles Convention Center, Staples Center and L.A. Live, as well as the neighborhood directly east of those world-famous locations. Like most BIDs in the DTLA area dealing with the impact of...
Traffic Slowdown Lets LADOT Jumpstart 7th Street Forward Project
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation is taking advantage of the drop in traffic to test some of the mobility and safety improvements planned for its 7th Street Forward Project between Figueroa and Main streets. Repaving has begun, with the agency set to next...
Metro Sets Four-Phase Plan to Restore Bus and Rail Service
Having just announced it will require all passengers to wear face coverings, Metro has revealed a four-phase plan to restore bus and rail service to pre-COVID-19 levels: Phase one calls for a modest service increase in June to serve returning non-essential trips....
Two Go DTLA Survey Takers Win $100 Gift Cards Supporting Sonoratown!
We’re thrilled to announce Ernesto Vega and Mary Trujillo have each won a $100 gift card to Sonoratown for taking the Go DTLA Survey! Ernesto lives in East Hollywood and can be found @e__rupt on Instagram, where he shows off his love of shows, nightclubs and new...
Metro Board To Vote May 28 On Half-Price Pass Discounts
The Metro board will vote at its May 28 meeting on a motion to offer relief to riders during the COVID-19 response to sell full day, seven-day and 30-day passes at half-price. The promotional passes would cost #3.50 for a day pass, $12.50 for a seven-day pass and $50...
COVID-19 Offers A Chance To Re-Think DTLA Mobility’s Exciting Future Together
The extension of safer-at-home orders into July is not how any of us at FASTLinkDTLA — or to be sure any of you reading this — expected to spend the summer of 2020. But as a wise man once sang, you can't always get what you want. Even with those orders now allowing...
¡Adelante con Go DTLA!
¡La encuesta Go DTLA de FASTLinkDTLA ya está disponible en Español! Por favor siga este enlace: https://fastlinkdtla.org/survey-es/ En nuestra página en español, hay instrucciones sobre la encuesta e información para individuos y empresas. ¡Participe en la encuesta Go...
ButterFLi: Affordable Transit For Those Who Need It Most
If you are a senior citizen or differently abled and need to make essential trips during the COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place order, our partner ButterFLi continues to provide transportation for you within our service area. Here's what you need to know: ButterFLi’s drivers...
Thanks to Our Partners!
And special thanks to the Historic Core BID, the Downtown Center BID and the U.S. Green Building Council — Los Angeles, all of which are helping get out the word about the Go DTLA Survey in their newsletters.
Eat Local With dineL.A. To Go!
DineL.A. is usually a twice-a-year event that allows restaurants all over the city to showcase the quality and diversity of their offerings. But times are not usual, so it's to dineL.A.'s credit that it's so quickly morphed into dineL.A. to Go, offering hungry folks...
Updates on COVID-19 & DTLA Transit
Metro has stepped up cleaning of Union Station and major transit hubs and is continuing to clean its buses and trains at least once daily. Check out this video for examples. LADOT Transit is limiting the number of passengers allowed on DASH buses to ensure safe social...
Fashion District BID Wants Your Take On Its Best Features
The Fashion District BID has been doing its part to keep the spirit of DTLA thriving by asking people to share their favorite photos of life amid its 107 blocks of fashion, flowers, fabrics, food, art and fun. The best pictures will be highlighted and shared on...
Take the Go DTLA Survey to Enter a Drawing for a $100 Gift Card from Sonoratown!
FASTLinkDTLA is pleased to highlight Sonoratown, another fantastic Downtown L.A. restaurant, in this week's Go DTLA Survey restaurant promotion. Everyone who takes our Go DTLA survey to help plan the future of mobility in DTLA anytime between now and Tuesday, May 5,...
Go DTLA Survey Winner of $100 Gelateria Uli Gift Card is Also a Local Business Owner!
Gelateria Uli owner Uli Nasibova is here to tell us which lucky person who took the Go DTLA Survey has won a $100 gift card to spend at her acclaimed sweets spots! When informed he won this week’s prize, Jim Winstead had this to say: ”My wife and I own Raw Materials...
Updates on COVID-19 & DTLA
Metro has now switched to a modified Sunday schedule for rail and buses. The org continues to recommend all riders wear face coverings and keep 6 feet from others as much as possible. Bus riders must enter and exit through the rear doors; only passengers in...
Orgs Step Up Efforts to Unite DTLA
The DTLA community has pulled together during the COVID-19 outbreak in ways unimaginable before the region's 21st-century revitalization. Last week, we spotlighted the excellent work of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District in helping people find and...
It’s Time to Rethink How the City Uses Public Road Space
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered nearly every aspect of life in DTLA, with vehicle and pedestrian traffic down as people stay home and practice social distancing the few times that we do go outside. The need for safe spaces for active transportation during COVID-19...
Go DTLA Survey Rewards Support Barcito, Gelateria Uli!
First Go DTLA Survey Rewards Winner Collects $100 Barcito Gift Card! Andrea Borgen, owner of the amazing Barcito restaurant, announces Go DTLA survey respondent Cheri Adams is the winner of a $100 gift card to the award-winning eatery serving up casual Argentinian...
Envisioning DTLA’s Mobility Future and Info on COVID-19
Survey Video
CREDITS Director/ Videographer/ Editor: Eric Treiber Producers: Hilary Norton Greg Perkins Music: “Follow Me” courtesy of Los Angeles based band, MEAN HEAT Special Thanks (In order of appearance): Hilary Norton Gerren Kelsaw Hal Bastian Adam Burke Reed Alvarado Joe...